We did it!

For the first time in Texas history, Texans will have the legal right to openly carry a holstered centerfire handgun.

Less than a week from the deadline, the conference committee met immediately after conferees were assigned and had agreed upon a report within a few hours. Last night, the House and Senate both approved the report, passing HB 910 and sending it to Governor Abbott.

The Republican Representatives that we castigated in a previous post for rejecting concurrence earlier in the week came around in the end. It’s become clear that the first concurrence vote wasn’t an underhanded attempt to kill the bill, as we had feared, and was just part of the wheeling and dealing nature of Texas politics. The previous post has been updated as a result.